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Countless amounts of money has been lost off-exchange. The entire reason people use exchanges is because holding your own crypto is laughably hard. Forgot your
by stouset 2y ago
Countless amounts of money has been lost off-exchange. The entire reason people use exchanges is because holding your own crypto is laughably hard.
Forgot your password? All your money is gone. Hard drive crashed and no backups? All your money is gone. Accidentally installed malware? All your money is gone. Spouse or parent with all the coins died? All the money is gone. Fat-finger a value in a transaction? Lots of your money is gone.
Yes there are “solutions” to all of these problems. All of them are Rube Goldberg contraptions themselves and have their own failure modes.